Anders F Björklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "If a port installs a foo.cf.sample it might want to copy >> foo.cf.sample to foo.cf iff foo.cf doesn't exist. This is probably >> common enough that the port author shouldn't be forced to write an >> on-install foo.cf.sample [ ! -f foo.cf ] && cp foo.cf.sample foo.cf" >> >> I don't understand what functionality requested by Brian cannot be met >> by MacPorts 1.5.2 as it is today. > >It's an enhancement alright, but I think that it would fit in great >with the need of packages to signify which files are configuration ? In >essence doing "port install/uninstall" and binary archives/packages >have different needs, but I think it would be great to have features >for both of them. And I do prefer simply listing the conffiles, rather >than having to write any such install/uninstall scripts manually.
I think having 'dodoc' and 'dobin' macros or some such like Gentoo would be very nice. I'm not sure what I 'doconf' would do but it could be useful. Mark _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
